Thanks - that Captive Minds video was very interesting. There definitely seemed to be parallels between Osho and the Mooji place. There is a big picture of Osho in the church hall that Mooji uses for his meets. But no evidence of people with machine guns guarding him :)
I did more research into Mooji's claims of lineage. He is descended from an Indian man called Papaji who has a few western gurus now preaching in his name. Some of the teachers (one is an elderly white American or Canadian woman called Gangaji) seem to be clearly connected and endorsed by Papaji/Poonjaji. I can't find any evidence of Mooji's exact relationship with Papaji though, apart from this video where he just seems to humiliate him [www.youtube.com].
There are no pictures anywhere with him and Papaji, unlike some other teachers... it made me think maybe he is overcompensating with all these pictures of his followers hugging and smiling with him. He doesn't have a picture with his Guru! I also found connections between Papaji and a disgraced Guru Andrew Cohen who is well documented on youtube and other places now. Again, Andrew Cohen seems to have just spent a few weeks with Papaji and then gone onto create a personality cult around himself. But the message is entirely different to the what Mooji is talking about.
But I can't find anything particularly nefarious. Though the more I watch these "satsangs", the more it gives me the creeps. But if he's not hurting anyone, who knows.
I did more research into Mooji's claims of lineage. He is descended from an Indian man called Papaji who has a few western gurus now preaching in his name. Some of the teachers (one is an elderly white American or Canadian woman called Gangaji) seem to be clearly connected and endorsed by Papaji/Poonjaji. I can't find any evidence of Mooji's exact relationship with Papaji though, apart from this video where he just seems to humiliate him [www.youtube.com].
There are no pictures anywhere with him and Papaji, unlike some other teachers... it made me think maybe he is overcompensating with all these pictures of his followers hugging and smiling with him. He doesn't have a picture with his Guru! I also found connections between Papaji and a disgraced Guru Andrew Cohen who is well documented on youtube and other places now. Again, Andrew Cohen seems to have just spent a few weeks with Papaji and then gone onto create a personality cult around himself. But the message is entirely different to the what Mooji is talking about.
But I can't find anything particularly nefarious. Though the more I watch these "satsangs", the more it gives me the creeps. But if he's not hurting anyone, who knows.